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1,600 immigrants arrested over 3 days in single Texas border

by Jack Phillips

More than 1,600 undocumented immigrants were arrested in three days in a single Texas border sector, according to the area’s chief Border Patrol agent. “More than 1,600 arrests in three days for agents of the Del Rio Sector!” Austin Skero, head of the Texas Del Rio Sector Border Patrol, wrote on Twitter. “These arrests include more than 25 smuggling cases, two criminal aliens and were mostly made up of single adults.” Later, Skero added that Del Rio agents detained a convicted rapist who had previously been deported. “Our officers arrested two more sex offenders over the weekend, one of whom was convicted of third degree rape in Kentucky,” he said in a news release Tuesday. “That is why it is vitally important that Border Patrol agents are there, at the border, identifying all those who cross our borders illegally.” Román GonzálezFlores, 49, a citizen of Mexico, was arrested after John Yarmuth (D-Ky.) said. “The American Rescue Plan is aggressive, no doubt about it, but researchers and health professionals have told us this is what it is needed to scale up testing, and to speed up equitable vaccine distribution. They said this is what is needed if we want to save lives and defeat this pandemic once and for all. Economists have also made clear what is needed to generate a strong strong, inclusive economic recovery. And, again, we listened,” he said. Others also said the bill would provide much-needed relief. “A once-in-a-lifetime pandemic requires bold investment and that is what the American Rescue Plan is. This bill invests $20 billion to get shots in arms and make sure everyone knows where, when, and how to get a vaccine. Many students are back in school or going back soon. California will get $15 billion to reopen safely and keep schools open to make up for lost time,” Rep. Salud Carbajal (D-Calif.) said on the House floor. “We’ve also invested in the backbone of our economy—small businesses. In fact, economists believe this bill can bring us back to near full employment in about a year. To ensure local governments can keep providing essential services, this bill delivers over $259 million to cities and counties in my district alone. Finally, this package invests in the American people. Direct payments, unemployment benefits, tax credits, and health subsidies will lift millions out of poverty.” Republicans asserted that the bill included a number of measures unrelated to combating the pandemic. Rep. Andy Barr (R-Ky.) argued the economy is already poised for a full recovery while accusing Democrats of “exploiting this pandemic” to pass partisan items such as giving money to state and local governments, and sending checks to prisoners. Lawmakers last passed a stimulus in December 2020, when former President Donald Trump was still in office. The $900 billion package included a round of stimulus checks, additional money for the Paycheck Protection Program, and supplemental unemployment aid.

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Murder, torture and abuse: rights commission covers up crimes against migrants

Testimonies tell of human rights violations but their contents have been kept under wraps

 

by Mexico News Daily

 

The National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) has covered up crimes against migrants including murder, torture, mass kidnappings and rape, according to an investigation by a digital newspaper.

Animal Político reported that between September 2019 and February 2020, the CNDH drew up 32 documents containing migrants’ testimonies of a range of crimes committed against them. Some of the victims were women, teenagers and children, said the news website, which obtained some of the documents

According to migrants who spoke with the CNDH, members of organized crime gangs as well as state and federal police were involved in the offenses.

Animal Político said it had access to testimonies collected by the CNDH at six government-run migrant stations and 12 shelters operated by civil society organizations located in the north, south and center of the country.

CNDH officials, including commission chief Rosario Piedra Ibarra, have full knowledge of the crimes, Animal Político said.

However, the commission has not publicly disclosed or commented on the testimonies it has gathered.

“It hasn’t done so in press releases, in recommendations or in a special report,” Animal Político said. “It didn’t even make mention of a single case of the kidnapping of migrants in the first report of activities with Rosario Piedra at the head of the CNDH.”

The newspaper said the CNDH has classified some of the testimonies as “reserved” information, arguing that revealing them would place migrants’ lives at risk. However, the testimonies are anonymous – they don’t include the names or addresses of the victims or other information that could be used to identify them apart from their nationality and when and where a crime was committed against them.

“While the CNDH reserves information, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador insists that under his administration, ‘the human rights of migrants are no longer violated.’ But the testimonies kept secret by the autonomous body contradict him,” Animal Político said.

The newspaper said it has asked the CNDH on four occasions to explain why it hasn’t made details of the crimes committed against migrants public. In response the rights commission sent 44 press releases listing recommendations for the defense of migrants’ rights but didn’t explain why it hasn’t released the testimonies or publicly commented on them.

In a document sent to the news organization on Monday, the CNDH defended its work to protect migrants in Mexico and said it was conducting an analysis to “evaluate the institutional capacities of the Mexican state to comply with [their] rights.”

However, the rights commission again failed to explain why it hasn’t disclosed the testimonies.

Animal Político did, however, publish some of the CNDH testimonies it obtained. Following are summaries of two of them.

  • A Honduran woman explained that she left her home in 2019 because she was pregnant and a “gangbanger” with whom she lived  had “sold” her unborn baby. She said that she reached Mexico and was passing through the San Luis Potosí municipality of Vanegas when local police boarded a truck she was traveling in and stole her money.

She said she was forced to go with a group of men in dark uniforms and was taken to a place where there were eight other women. “I knew that it was a kidnapping because they forced us to speak to our families and ask for money … [to spare] our lives,” she said.

The woman said that she and the other abductees were repeatedly raped, beaten and stabbed. “They killed some of the women in front of me. They treated us as if we were their erotic toys,” she said.

“… Because of their weapons and the codes they used to speak, I can almost guarantee that those who kidnapped me were police. I left there completely lost, humiliated, beaten, swollen and demoralized. I had to go into a victim protection program. It’s taken me a long time to recover my life. … I lived very bad experiences in Mexico. My daughter had to be born in Mexico, she was born healthy thanks to the care they gave me in the [migrant] shelter.”

The woman gave her testimony to the CNDH in October 2019 in Santa Catarina, Nuevo León.

  • A Guatemalan man said that he entered Mexico via the southern border in February 2019 with 50 other migrants and a pollero, or people smuggler. He said he was traveling north in a truck that suddenly stopped in Altamira, Tamaulipas.

“They opened the doors and a lot of armed men appeared. They took us off and put us in another truck without a roof, one of those that transports cattle. There were about 70 men in mine, everyone crowded together,he said.

They traveled for six hours to reach the northern border city of Matamoros where the migrants were stripped of their phones and money and locked up in small houses, he said.

“There were about 75 of us per house. … They told us that they were going to cross us [into the United States] but they wanted US $5,500 for each person. I think they were from the Gulf Cartel, very violent people, well armed and with bulletproof vests, caps and balaclavas,he said.

The man said that he and the others were rescued by the navy but their captors got away. He said he was subsequently sent to a migrant detention center in Tapachula, Chiapas, where the staff welcomed him with the words “welcome to hell.

He said he was deported to Guatemala in March 2019 but he crossed into Mexico again in September that year – three months after the federal government deployed the National Guard to stop the flow of migrants to the United States. The man said he was detained again and placed in a migrant station to await deportation.

“It’s difficult to cross Mexico. You leave a lot of money here but you still can’t get to your destination,” he said.

The man spoke to the CNDH in Huixtla, Chiapas, in September 2019.

In response to the revelation that the CNDH is concealing information, Interior Minister Olga Sánchez said Wednesday that the commission must be accountable and transparent.

“I would hope that … the CNDH, which is a very prestigious institution, continues to be transparent and doesn’t hide information,” she said, adding that it should denounce rights violations and make recommendations so the authorities can respond to them.

With regard to the migrants’ testimonies, Sánchez said: “If we don’t acknowledge that these [human rights] violations exist, … we can’t make progress on the issue. These violations of migrants’ human rights are absolutely unacceptable and any complaint … in relation to any of our migration personnel, police, or any government authorities violating human rights [must be given to the government]. We have to have the CNDH investigations in order to proceed accordingly.”

The rights commission has previously been accused of failing to defend women’s rights, and its Mexico City headquarters were taken over and occupied by a feminist collective last September.

Source: Animal Político (sp) 

  During pandemic, no better time to quit smoking

by Jackson Gutiérrez

 

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect us, I think about the importance of lung health. Especially for people trying to quit smoking. When it comes to the quit struggle, I know all about it.

I remember when I was a young boy I played with the ashtray my father kept next to my parents’ bed, and admired the beautiful ornament on the coffee table in the living room that I later learned was a cigarette lighter. All around me were signs of my father’s habit, and it was no surprise that I occasionally mimicked him by bringing a white, plastic straw to my lips and taking a drag.

During my teenage years, I attended a high school for the arts and saw so many classmates smoking. That’s when I had my first cigarette. Little did I know it would be the start of my seven-year fight against nicotine.

Social smoking soon turned into an addiction and changed my sense of who I was. From a co-worker calling me a “smoker,” to a friend commenting how I reeked of tobacco, these are things I never thought applied to me. These comments forced me to examine who I had become and accept that smoking played a big part in my life.

Over the following years, it felt like I tried to stop smoking almost every week. I would mentally prepare to quit, but as I neared the end of a pack, I’d delay the decision to another day. Sometimes I was more successful, with a handful of my attempts to stop stretching nearly three months. I only recently learned that I wasn’t alone. One study found the average smoker tries almost 30 times to stop before quitting for good.

But then I’d feel a trigger. I recall sitting in the movie theater one day and being focused on a character smoking a cigarette in a scene. I became so distracted at the thought of lighting up that I hurried outside the building for a quick puff. And so it went, another attempt to quit ended in defeat.

The pandemic has put the spotlight on how dangerous smoking is and how important quitting can be for continued good health. Studies show people who smoke and vape are at increased risk of developing chronic lung conditions which puts them at a high risk for severe illness from COVID-19.1

Experts say we shouldn’t be so hard on ourselves as long as we keep trying.

“Over the years, we’ve seen so many people who think they will never be able to quit but we remind them that with determination and help, they can succeed,” said Sharon Cummins, Director of the California Smokers’ Helpline, a free service that has helped nearly 1 million Californians quit smoking over the past 30 years. “People move at their own pace and no matter how many tries it takes, the desire for a healthier life can prevail.”

The best thing I’ve done for myself is quit smoking. Not only do I feel better, and smell great, but my career as a voice actor hasn’t suffered. Had I continued to smoke, I would have damaged my lungs and throat, possibly destroying my career.

Now that lung health is more important than ever, I hope other smokers see the truth about tobacco: it is harmful and addictive, and yet they have the strength to quit, too. It may take more than one time or 20 times, but with support and confidence, they can quit and stay quit.

Gutierrez is a voice actor and lives in Long Beach. Need help to quit smoking? Visit quit.nobutts.org or call 1-800-NO-BUTTS, for free quit support from the California Smokers’ Helpline.

  1. California Smokers Helpline. Coronavirus (COVID-19). NoButts.org. https://www.nobutts.org/covid. Accessed February 26, 2021.

 

How our 2020 taxes could affect the size of your next stimulus check

By Denitsa Tsekova

With another stimulus bill on the verge of going into law halfway through tax season, filing now or later may affect how much you get in your next stimulus check. If your income dropped in 2020 compared to 2019, you should file immediately online. But if it increased, you might consider waiting until the payments are issued before filing your federal tax return. “It probably is beneficial if your 2020 income is less than your 2019 to file your tax return immediately,” Lewis Taub, a certified public accountant and New York director of tax services at Berkowitz Pollack Brant Advisors, told Yahoo Money. “If you don’t do that and you miss the actual cutoff point, you’ll be able to get the difference of what you were actually owed on the 2021 return.” If your 2020 income was below $80,000 for single filers and $160,000 for joint filers, you would be eligible for some amount of the potential third round

Update and resources del PPP 2.0-EIDL-CA Relief Grant 2021

Compiled by the El Reportero’s staff

An interactive session to discuss latest updates on these small business loans and grants will take place on Monday, March 22 and 29, from 9 – 10 a.m.; and April 5, 19 and 26, from 9 – 10 a.m. Co-sponsored by the California Hispanic Chambers of Commerce. Register now! http://bit.ly/3qqzko. March 22, 29, April 12, 19 and 26, 2021 at 9 a.m. Business resources in Palo Alto Our Business Assistance Center has up-to-date information for businesses that continue to operate and for those businesses that are closed and experiencing hardship during the shelter in place order. Please learn more on our Uplift Local for Business page. – “Spring Cleaning” Networking Event: Targeted to cleaning businesses, join this networking event hosted by Start Small Think Big to learn what other similar businesses have learned through the last year. Register to join on March 23, at 3 p.m. – Financial Coaching: TrustPlus is partnering with the Opportunity Fund to offer free one-on-one financial coaching to small business owners in English and Spanish. Learn more here. Uplift Local for Businesses: As always, check here for updates on temporary outdoor spaces, street closures, and more.

Envy can destroy economic progress

EDITOR’S

NOTE Dear Readers:

With much feeling I write these words to introduce a topic that is of great importance for our cultures from developing countries, especially Latin America: Envy. I found this interesting article, from which I publish an excerpt, and written by Lipton Matthews, deals with the issue of envy as a negative status in progress within our cultures.

Marvin Ramirez by Lipton Matthews shared from Mises Wire Economists think that culture is a fuzzy concept. However, as research shows, culture allows us to know the growth potential of a country. A cultural trait worth studying for its propensity to stunt development is envy. Envy is described as a feeling of resentment motivated by the achievements of other people.

The manifestation of this emotion can be destructive or progressive. Getting an education, starting a business, or investing are examples of constructive envy.

The desire to outperform the rival can serve as an incentive to engage in productive activities. Specifically, studies postulate that individuals work longer hours to compensate for the drop in income relative to other groups. However, many have argued that constructive envy is more pervasive in developed countries, while fear of destructive envy is ubiquitous in the developing world.

This is because countries with weak institutions — that is, institutions that do not protect private property — are less likely to get rich; therefore, the dearth of success makes achievement pretentious. Consequently, competent individuals rationally avoid entrepreneurial initiatives to thwart the plans of the envious. Unsurprisingly, envy avoidance behavior imposes a limitation on productivity, thus restricting the growth of material prosperity.

In anthropological studies, scholars postulate that the intention to prevent the effects of destructive envy has resulted in the deliberate underproduction of crops. For people in an envious environment, the benefits of performance outweigh the costs of destructive envy. In Envy and Agricultural Innovation: An Experimental Case Study from Ethiopia, Bereket Kebede and Daniel John Zizzo illustrate that destructive envy is a deterrent to the adoption of agricultural innovations.

The authors report that, in one of the study towns, a man burned down his brother’s farm when he was growing a more lucrative cereal. Destructive envy therefore carries a deadweight cost, since instead of being productive the envious are engaged in undermining the efforts of their neighbors. – (From the editor: If you follow us on www.elreporteroSF.com, we will publish the full article in about a week.)

Magnesium found to help reduce insulin resistance in people with Type 2 diabetes

by Divina Ramírez

Magnesium supplementation significantly reduces insulin resistance and improves glycemic response in Type 2 diabetes patients, according to a study recently published in Nutrients. In particular, it showed that Type 2 diabetes patients who took 250 milligrams (mg) of magnesium every day for three months experienced significant improvements in their insulin levels, as well as in other markers for assessing glycemic control. Overall, the study’s findings support magnesium supplementation as a promising strategy for preventing and managing Type 2 diabetes. Magnesium supplementation improves insulin resistance Magnesium participates directly in glucose metabolism disorders like Type 2 diabetes. To examine the effects of magnesium supplementation on insulin resistance and glycemic control among diabetics, researchers from Al-Azhar UniversityGaza in Palestine studied 42 patients aged 35–60 years who were newly diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. The participants were first stratified based on age, sex, fasting blood sugar and magnesium levels before they were randomly allocated into two groups. Both groups ate a healthy diet of fruits, vegetables, nuts and whole grains throughout the intervention period.

The researchers also measured biochemical parameters at baseline and after the intervention. These include fasting blood sugar, serum magnesium, hemoglobin A1c and fasting C-peptide and insulin levels. Patients in the intervention group took one 250-mg tablet of elemental magnesium every day for three months. The results of the experiment showed that patients in the intervention group exhibited significant reductions in their plasma levels of hemoglobin A1c, which indicates the amount of glucose attached to hemoglobin, and in their insulin levels. The patients also showed marked reductions in their fasting blood sugar and C-peptide levels, which indicate how much insulin is being produced. Taken together, the results indicate that magnesiu supplementation not only reduces insulin resistance but also improves markers of glycemic control among Type 2 diabetes patients. High dietary magnesium intake linked to reduced insulin resistance In 2013, a team of Canadian researchers from the Memorial University of Newfoundland also looked into the effects of magnesium on insulin resistance. They studied 2,330 participants from Canada who were part of the ongoing Complex Diseases in the Newfoundland Population: Environment and Genetics (CODING) Study. The participants, who were aged 19 years and above, were all healthy and without any serious chronic diseases. The researchers assessed participants’ dietary intake patterns using food frequency questionnaires. Responses were then fed into a program that calculated the total daily intake of magnesium for each participant. The results showed that participants who were overweight or obese had the highest levels of insulin. They also had the lowest levels of magnesium intake per day and of magnesium per kilogram of body weight. Meanwhile, participants with the highest magnesium intake had the lowest levels of insulin. Overall, the results indicate that dietary magnesium intake and insulin resistance are inversely correlated. The results also suggest that high dietary magnesium intake is especially beneficial for those that are overweight or obese. (Related: Discovering the anti-obesity potential of quercetin.)

Wisconsin moves to bar public officials, employers from mandating COVID vaccines

Two bills have been passed by the state Senate and are being considered by the state Assembly

 

by Patrick Delaney

 

MADISON, Wisconsin, March 5, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — With support from broad initiatives to protect citizens from the growing trend of de facto mandated COVID-19 vaccinations, Wisconsin state legislators have responded with two bills affirming that neither local health officials nor employers can require these injections of residents or employees, respectively.

In a public hearing yesterday, hosted by the Assembly’s Committee on Constitution and Ethics, members were exposed to a continuous stream of support for the following two bills:

  • AB23 prohibits state and local health officers from “requiring individuals to receive a vaccine against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, which causes COVID-19.”
  • AB25 prohibits “an employer from requiring an individual to receive a vaccine against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus or show evidence of having received such a vaccine.”

In his opening remarks introducing the bills, co-sponsor state Sen. André Jacque (R-De Pere) stated “[a]pprehension by the general public in receiving COVID vaccines is understandable, given that their development and approval was expedited at breakneck speed and not as robustly examined and tested for long-term effects.”

“Vaccines can kill or make some people with auto-immune disorders … very sick. Forcing the vaccination of millions of young and healthy citizens who perceive themselves to be at an acceptably low risk from COVID-19 is ethically disputed,” he said.

“We don’t know how long immunity conferred by the vaccines lasts, none of the trials were designed to tell us if the vaccine prevents serious disease or virus transmission, and, we don’t yet know if they have any adverse effects on various subpopulations,” Jacque said.

He further noted that according to a December ABC News/Ipsos poll, “61% of Americans believe their state shouldn’t require that people get vaccinated to return to work or school, a number that rises to 63% among political independents.”

With regards to the rights of employees, Jacque affirmed it is “imperative that a person’s choice of whether or not to receive a COVID-19 vaccine does not impact their ability to make a living and provide for their family.”

And these situations are “not hypothetical,” he added, highlighting several examples from his own district, and the case of a nursing home in Janesville, which attempted such a mandate, even laying off employees who declined injections of these experimental substances.

“It is critical to respect, and protect, individual freedom in medical decisions,” he concluded.

Legislative Director of Pro-Life Wisconsin, Matt Sande, introduced the highly developed position of the Personhood Alliance (PA) on vaccine ethics, which he directly helped develop as a founding member of PA.

As he summarized, this PA policy “opposes and deems morally unacceptable the production and testing of vaccines using the remains of aborted human beings.” And, secondly, it “affirms the rights of all people to refuse medical treatment and to reject violations of their and their family’s bodily integrity, moral conscience, and constitutional protections through forced or coerced vaccines.”

Kimberly Smith, an African American from Oregon, stated AB 23 & 25 were “very pro-black bills!” She encouraged all to read a book titled Medical Apartheid, which in her words “describes the atrocities by the medical community” against black people and why the latter suffer from high degrees of iatrophobia, that is the fear of doctors.

The author, Harriet Washington, reports on many such abuses throughout history, including, according to Smith, the use of an experimental vaccine in Haiti which “killed Haitian children and was moved to Los Angeles, and was given to Black and Hispanic children,” killing many there, as well.

Smith summarized in her testimony, that “a vote against bill 23 and 25, or a veto against bill 23 or 25, is an act of violence against the black community. It is white supremacy. It is racist in its most simplest [sic] form.”

Expressing sincere gratitude to the legislators, Smith, a Democrat, said, “I want to thank the Republican legislature for advocating for the black community, I think without even knowing it.”

Each of the spokespersons of organizations, and other citizens who testify, are required to submit a “hearing slip.” At the end of the session, Committee Chairman Rep. Chuck Wichgers (R-Muskego), held up a stack of approximately 100 hearing slips submitted by those who either registered or testified in favor of these bills. Then, he showed the room the slip of the solitary individual who registered against identifying this person as “the UW Health and Clinics lobbyist, Connie Schulze.”

Wichgers told LifeSiteNews that this was “a lengthy committee hearing which included substantial information with overwhelming sentiments in favor” of the bills. “As the chair, I am compelled to hold an executive session soon, obtain a vote from our committee and petition the speaker to send it to the Assembly floor.”

With the Wisconsin state Senate having already passed these bills, passage in the Assembly would send them to the desk of Gov. Tony Evers (D). His position on the bills is not clear yet.

“Assembly bills 23 & 25 specifically reinforce our vaccine ethics position. For the many Wisconsinites who earnestly avoid any entanglement in the abortion industry, forcing them to receive a vaccine produced from or tested using aborted fetal cells is repugnant, a total violation of conscience,” he said.

This is the case for the current Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines which were “unethically tested” using fetal cells “harvested from the kidney of a preborn baby aborted in the Netherlands in 1973.” And the new Janssen / Johnson & Johnson experimental vaccine uses aborted cell lines from an 18-week-old fetus aborted in 1985 “in its development and production,” Sande said.

Finally, “whether or not a vaccine is ethically produced and tested, it is unethical, and highly offensive, for the state, an employer, or anyone to force it on an individual who may strongly resist it for a variety of health, conscience, religious or personal reasons. It is a direct physical assault on that person’s bodily integrity. Such an assault can leave a deep emotional and psychological impact, inducing intense fear, distrust, and anger,” he said.

The US and Mexico dialogue to stop migration

by the El Reportero’s wire services
Roberta Jacobson and Juan González, advisers to Joe Biden, meet in Mexico City with the Foreign Ministry and immigration authorities to evaluate the growing phenomenon on the northern and southern borders and the measures to curb the migratory phenomenon. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador asserted on Tuesday that Mexico “is not a colony” of anyone, questioned whether the visit to the country by several advisers of his US counterpart, Joe Biden, is to supervise actions to stop the wave of immigration. “We do not accept supervisory visits. If we are not a colony, we are not a protectorate. Mexico is an independent and sovereign country, “said the president during his morning press conference from the National Palace, and recalled that the meeting between officials is due to a visit on migration and security issues.https://www.efe. com/efe/usa/inmigracion/tension-en-la-fronterade-mexico-por-el-flujomigratorio-y-politicaseeuu/50000098-4490779. Tension on the Mexican border due to the migratory flow and US policies Tension, despair and uncertainty are perceived along the Mexican border due to the increase in the flow of migrants and the new policies of the US government of Joe Biden, which
on Wednesday denied that there is a “migratory crisis.” In Tijuana, the largest city on Mexico’s northern border, confusion reigns in a camp with 1,500 migrants from Honduras, El Salvador, Cuba, Haiti and Africa, among whom there are 300 children, 50 babies and 10 pregnant women waiting to cross. To united states. The migrants denounced that they are in camping houses without toilets or spaces for personal hygiene, with little surveillance from
the Tijuana Municipal Police. “We are not going to go to a shelter until they give us an answer,” said asylum seekers from the El Chaparral camp, who preferred to remain anonymous for fear of their safety. Biden resumed on February 19 the processing of 25,000 asylum seekers returned to Mexico under the Migrant Protection Protocol (MPP), known as “Remain in Mexico”, established by former President Donald Trump (2017-2021).